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ground is extremely painful for it. Do not cut so much that the knife reaches the neck joint, causing unnecessary suffering to the animal. Unless the sacrificed animal becomes completely dead (and its body parts become motionless), neither cut its feet nor skin it. Do not even touch the knife and your hand to its cut throat unless its soul has left its body. In order to quicken the death of the cow, some butchers take off the neck-skin of a writhing cow, stab into its chest and cut the veins of its heart.
Similarly, some people break the neck of the goat right after slaughtering it. Animals cannot express their sufferings; they should not be oppressed in any way. If possible, it is necessary to prevent those harming animals unlawfully. If one does not prevent such oppression despite being able to do so, then he will be a sinner and deserves Hell. It is stated on page 259 of Baĥār-e-Sharī’at, volume 16, ‘Oppressing an animal is worse than oppressing a Żimmī unbeliever (now all the unbelievers are Ḥarbī) and oppressing a Żimmī unbeliever is worse than oppressing even a Muslim as no one is the guardian of the animal except Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ; who else will protect the ill-treated animal from oppression!’ (Durr-e-Mukhtār, Rad-dul-Muḥtār, vol. 9, pp. 662)
After the slaughter, some people unreasonably cause pain to the animal that cannot express its suffering, by knifing the
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